Lightning Talks by Django-using startups

The meetup is at One Cambridge Center (Street View) in Kendall Sq. The lobby and sidewalk are under construction. There is a construction sign indicating where (approximately at the A marker in Street View) to enter the lobby. Tell the guard you are attending Django Boston meetup at Dogpatch Labs. Take the elevator to the 6th Floor.

Meetup

We invite you to an evening of short lightning talks by the hottest startups in Boston, two of which are Techstars companies and two that are working out of the Dogpatch Labs incubator for startups. Hear how Django helps them to innovate at lightning speed!

David will introduce python-sld and django-sld, two new python libraries for generating StyledLayerDescriptor XML documents, used to style map images in the popular mapping servers: GeoServer and MapServer.

He will touch on a bunch of geodjango fundamentals and mention spatial databases in the course of the introduction.

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Nate will show how to deploy a Django project into production in less than 5 minutes using DjangoZoom, our one-click deployment and hosting platform specifically designed with the needs of Django developers in mind.

Interesting to see how Django has been utilized by the different startups. Overall, DjangoZoom stood out as being extremely cool (perhaps because its a general platform vs. very specific use case). Would love to see more on this product as well as to try it out at some point.

A former member

It was interesting to see how startups with very small developer teams--often teams of one--use Django to develop applications very rapidly. This meetup ended up being a "best practices on steroids" kind of experience for me. So glad I decided to go!

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